Our sister site, GarageCrowd.com, is down

The Garage Crowd site's host computer failed sometime this afternoon. Zen and I went to his work shop to investigate why the site wasn't responding. After determining the crash was hardware related and the host computer would not function, we returned to Park Place. In a controlled rush, I put the Garage Crowd site's hard drive into the Azure dragon while Zen began changing over the DNS records. Soon, the Garage Crowd site was up and running-- despite it being designed for a non-Linux OS. DrQue.net will host the Garage Crowd site as long as needed, until Zen and I figure out what hardware needs to be replaced on the broken computer.

Our sister site, GarageCrowd.com, was down

GarageCrowd.com was down for a while. Zen, the system administrator, was out of town and it took some time to get a hold of him. Once he was reached, he was able to call someone and have them bring the server back up. But, for those of you who couldn't get on in the morning-- that's why.

Photo gallery script good enough for beta

After development of forever and a day, the photo gallery script is complete enough to reach it's beta state. This script runs the photo's page as well as the photo galleries at Drink'n Drano and The Garage. It still has some areas that need work, but all the base functionality is there.

So what happened during the month of June that resulted in such as massive growth? There are a couple of things. Probably the biggest is our parallel efforts with Zen and the GarageCrowd site-- a sister site of the Garage site. Zen has made a terrific site and draws a lot of regular visitors. Our conglomerate ring of sites includes the Garage Crowd, The Garage and Drink'n Drano that probably accounts for 50% of the traffic we receive. Crystal's site, Drink'n Drano, has attracted a lot of traffic from the Garage Crowd site. A close second would have to be the Kings Quest walkthrough site, taking hits from all over the world. What's coming up for the month of July? Well, I hope to finish the long in the working image gallery script. It is currently running the pictures page for DrQue.net, but it has a lot of work needed still. We'll also continue to add to the pictures page for DrQue.net. They are growing fast already since I started riding bike almost daily now. Crystal will also continue adding to her site Drink'n Drano. And we have to start on Phucker.com and MMSof.com. Some options are being explored, including some PHP based systems, but more as we explore that.

Loss of power at Park Place

Around 6:00pm today, we lost power for a good 20 minutes, but DrQue.net continued to serve webpages. The UPS had no problem delivering power though the downtime caused by the electrical storm outside. Due to the temperature outside, the Black Dragon was taken off-line for the power outage since the air conditioner was unable to run. The Dragon's Den really gets warm quickly in the summer without air conditioning.

DrQue.net breaks 100,000 hits in a single month

Some pictures of Que and our setup

It doesn't look like I've been doing much, but actually I've been making good progress on the PHP/MySQL system I want to use for photo gallery's. It's not quite ready yet, but close enough to run a pictures page for DrQue.net. It's kind of A LOT OF WORK!

Contact page redone using PHP and CGI

The contact page system was revised to use PHP. It makes it much easier to display errors and also gives you the option to post your message using SSL encryption. I still had to use CGI to send the e-mail. PHP has e-mail stuff built in, but I couldn't get it working. It's okay though, the CGI system still works fine.